Sentence examples for contested countries from inspiring English sources

With large tracts of land for renewables becoming intensely contested, countries seeking to meet their renewables targets are directing attention also towards tapping the potential in the urban environment through smaller-scale facilities.

The funding will go straight towards Delivery Hero's home market of Germany and other hotly contested countries — "to defend our leading position in key markets and in particular Germany where we see increasing competition," in the words of CEO Niklas Ostberg.

This contested country has a long history of ethnic tensions, which have only become more acute in recent decades.

Yet, in what may be the most closely contested state in the country, an additional percentage point, or 40,000 more Latino voters, might well enable Mr. Obama to keep Virginia in the Democratic column.

These institutions play important roles in the international system and they are often contested by countries that seek greater influence.

Indeed, this month it announced an effort to exert tighter control over fishing in the waters of the South China Sea, which are contested by countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines.

But these tiny territories, sweeping from southeast to northeast Asia, are fiercely contested among countries that are buoyed by nationalism and by a growing thirst for the natural resources off their shores.

The dispute is playing out hundreds of miles from what has long been seen as the most contested area between the countries — a stretch of land that separates Tibet, occupied for decades by China, and the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

There's a sevens world series contested by 19 countries in 10 cities.

Sanya is on the southern coast of Hainan island and faces the South China Sea, whose waters are contested by several countries, China among them.

The rest of the border, which has been contested by both countries, was redefined in a 2013 decision by the international court of justice in the Hague.